Title   Native Americans playing ping pong
Call Number   NS-718
Summary   Two Native American men in feather headresses play ping pong while a crowd of men watch them. The spectators include Native American men in headdresses, cavalrymen and a few Russian Cossacks in uniform. The men are members of "Buffalo Bill's Congress of Rough Riders of the World" gathered in an arena for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. A large tent covers the bleachers in the left background.
Date   [1901?]
Collection   Salsbury collection, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show ; album no. 6
Notes   Vintage photographic print.
  Title supplied by cataloger.
  "Salsbury Collection Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Rehearsal Pictures 1901" typed on first page of album; on final page of album "Cubans actual war veterans of Spanish-American War Color Guard under Gen. Maceo Members: Pedro Diaz, Colonel Valdez, Sergeant Hernandez, Colonel Aqueroy Aquero, Colonel Del Gado, Lieutenant Martinez, Colonel Amyritche, Bugle Caronelle, Lain de Soto, Lieutenant Mazzorra, Guide Carbo, Don Miguel, Sergeant Perez, Lieutenant Fortanella, Santa Marina."
  Photoprint has number "152" handwritten in middle left side and on back; number "2/2" also handwritten on back of photoprint.
  Photographer's stamp reading "Photographed by John C. Hemment, 108 Fulton St., New York" stamped on back of photoprint.
Photo Materials   1 photoprint ; 12 x 19 cm. (4 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
Copyright   Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
See Also   Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.
  Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
  Table tennis 1900-1910.
  Indians of North America Clothing & dress 1900-1910.
  Cossacks 1900-1910.
  Wild west shows 1880-1920.
  Salsbury, Nate, 1846-1902.
  Imaged.
  Photographic prints.
URL   http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?00105718+NS-718

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